ATTORNEYS
Jon R. Mower | Patrick A. Carreon | Aashish Y. Desai | James A. Burton

Jon R. Mower

Mr. Mower attended Stanford University on an academic scholarship and graduated with honors in 1972 with a degree in psychology. He attended law school at the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating in 1976. He was a member of the UCLA Law Review and received the American Jurisprudence Award in Labor Law.

Mr. Mower has supervised and tried a large volume of cases in all the Southern California branch Superior Courts and Federal Court. He specializes in personal injury, professional liability and consumer class action lawsuits, including employment related claims. He has obtained successful verdicts and settlements involving automobile products liability, premises liability and professional malpractice litigation. Mr. Mower is a member of the California State Bar, Orange County Bar Association, Consumer Attorneys of California, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He has also lectured in the areas of tort law, governmental liability, trial tactics and law and medicine.

Patrick A. Carreon

Mr. Carreon attended Harvard University where he lettered in Varsity Football while also making Honor Roll. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology in 1981. He attended law school at UCLA graduating in 1984 as a member of the Moot Court and Trial Advocacy Honor Societies.

Over the past 22 years, Mr. Carreon has tried numerous cases in the federal and superior courts of California and Arizona. As one of the founding partners of MOWER CARREON AND DESAI LLP, he has specialized in labor, anti-trust and unfair business practice class action litigation on behalf of consumers, employees and investment shareholders. His expertise additionally extends to multiparty and individual actions in the areas of elder abuse, lender liability, premises and products liability, medical and legal malpractice, toxic exposure and insurance bad faith.

Mr. Carreon's most recent accomplishments include a settlement of just under 13 Million dollars against Pacific Maritime Association for their failure to appropriately compensate non-union longshoremen and consecutive settlements totalling just over 7.6 Million dollars against E-trade Financial for their failure to pay overtime to their loan producers.

Mr. Carreon is currently a member of the State Bar of California, the Orange County Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and Consumer Attorneys of California. Mr. Carreon has lectured in the areas of trial tactics, consumer fraud, and medical malpractice.

Aashish Y. Desai

AASHISH Y. DESAI was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1968 but was raised in Texas. Mr. Desai received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from The University of Texas in Austin in 1991, and went on to obtain his Juris Doctorate from The University of Houston Law Center in 1996. He was a W.W. Watkins Advocacy Scholar, received the American Jurisprudence Book Award in Contracts, and was a member of the elite mock trial and moot court group, The Advocates.

For two years he served as an Adjunct Professor at Chapman University School of Law, teaching Legal Research and Writing (2004-2006). In 2005 -- and again in 2006 and 2007 -- Mr. Desai was selected by his peers as a "Rising Star" in Class Action Litigation by Super Lawyers Magazine B a comprehensive listing of 2.5% of the “Best Young Lawyers in Southern California.”

Mr. Desai was previously associated with a prominent defense firm in Orange county working on professional liability, surety and complex business litigation. As a name partner of Mower, Carreon & Desai, LLP he primarily handles class and collective actions involving antitrust law, state and federal wage and hour law, consumer fraud actions, nationwide securities actions, lender liability matters, and unfair business practices.

James A. Burton

JAMES A. BURTON was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. After attending the University of Alabama from 1980 to 1982, where he was a member of the nationally ranked men's intercollegiate swimming team, Mr. Burton graduated from the University of Washington in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science and a minor in English. He attended law school at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, where he graduated in 1989 and was a published legislative review analyst for the Pacific Law Journal.

As a member of Mower, Carreon & Desai, and throughout his career practicing in California and Washington, Mr. Burton has successfully litigated a large volume of cases in the areas of insurance coverage and bad faith, personal injury, professional malpractice, governmental tort liability, federal civil rights claims, and consumer class and collective actions involving unfair business practices and employment related claims. Mr. Burton is licensed to practice before all state courts in California and Washington, the U.S. District Courts for the Central District of California and Western District of Washington, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. He is a member of the State Bar of California, the Washington State Bar Association, the Orange County Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and Consumer Attorneys of California.